What is the Difference Between Compound Words and Phrases

Answer:

Often we confuse compound words with phrases. Compound words and phrases do look similar at first glance. Here are the differences between compound words and phrases.

• word compound

Compound words consist of two or more different words that will form a new meaning. And compound words cannot be inserted or separated because they will have different meanings. Example:

1. hospital (a place of care for the sick)
2. glasses (an object to help the eye in seeing in the form of a glass lens)
3. street vendors (traders who carry out selling activities on the roadside/sidewalk)
4. inner and outer (everything related to the physical body and heart or soul)
5. complete darkness (a state or thing that is not clear or not bright or not visible at all)

• Phrase

If a phrase is a combination of two words that do not form a new meaning, in a sentence occupying phrases such as subject, predicate, or adverb. Example:

1. nap (sleep during the day)
2. glass slipper (shoe made of from glass)
3. very beautiful (the state of the person / thing that is beautiful)
4. chick (offspring of birds)
5. biological mother (the person who gave birth to us)

That's the difference between compound words and phrases. May be useful.